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⌈ Secret Post #6988 ⌋

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Re: Favorite Character archetypes

[(Anonymous)]

I. love. LIARS.

I love any character with an intricately constructed facade-- not necessarily an alter ego. Not every superhero secret identity fits this for me, in fact most don't quite hit just right for me on that front. And not every duplicitous villain does it, either. With the right writer, (comics) Tony Stark, like Bruce Wayne, can meet the standard set by Percy Blakeney-- because my absolute favorite iteration is someone who is intelligent and skilled and trying to save lives... and if anyone asks, the absolute dumbest fancy-man to ever live. Complete airhead in very expensive clothes, seemingly guileless, you wonder how he hasn't lost his fortune through sheer idiocy sometimes.

And then from there, like... any heroic character whose life is enough of a lie will have me, but sometimes it does not have to be a whole other secret identity deal-- it can also be a character who puts a lot of emphasis on having the right Appearance while having hidden depths-- which can be anything from Rarity My Little Pony seeming like every shallow girly stereotype while being exceptionally *selfless*, to Dean Winchester being... Like That, and then hitting us with 'Lady, I'm Tolstoy.' It can also just be a character who has one big secret that they need to construct a false life around, a la Bashir DS9, who spends so much of his life pretending to be a little clumsier, a little slower, than he really is, while also having to put forth the idea of a man trying like hell to present himself as *better* than the idea of Julian Bashir he needs everyone to believe in is.

And while I do prefer heroic liars, there ARE villains that are so magnificent about their facades that I am ALL IN. (in telling a friend who my favorite characters were in a book he'd read before me, he had a Reaction to one, and I had to say yes, I already KNOW, I knew VERY quickly that she was a fraud and a liar, that's the POINT babey)

Of course, between the two, you have the morally greyer. Garak, my beloved. This is perhaps where I'd put Vetinari, not to mention one of his favorite victim/civic employees, Moist (his other favorite civic employee, of course, is far more forthright). I love spies and con men, and they are definitely liars, though few have one single facade. I would still put E.L. 'Tenspeed' Turner here-- like Moist, he changes identities and scams on a dime rather than having a single false identity, and like Moist, there's a man who believes he can use his talents for good rather than for crime... he just does something for me. Harold Hill and Max Bialystock I'd put as con men with one singular facade and one long-running con.

Yes, I've been told I need to watch Leverage.